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This is the Woodrow Wilson School's consolidated weekly listing of events, which will be emailed out every Friday or, when there are holidays, on the last business day of the week. All WWS Centers and Programs are invited to include their events on this list. Please contact the Office of Public & External Affairs at extaff@princeton.edu to find out how to submit information on your events.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
"The Serengeti shall not Divide - Repositioning Infrastructure Development Around An Iconic East African National Park" Student and faculty preferred.
300 Wallce Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Andrew P Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Sponsor: STEP and PEI
Contact: Chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
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"The FDIC's Response to the Financial Crisis"
This event is free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Martin Greunberg '75, acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/MartinGruenberg11_28/
LAPA Seminar: "Pure Parsi: Libel, Race, and Group Membership in Colonial South Asia"
Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall, 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mitra Sharafi, Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study; University of Wisconsin Law School
Commentator Cyrus Schayegh, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Contact: Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=493 LAPA's seminar format asks that attendees familiarize themselves with the paper in advance. The commentator will open the session by summarizing the main themes in the paper and presenting some topics for discussion. The author then has the right of first response before the floor is opened for questions. Each seminar concludes with a brief reception, giving everyone a chance to mingle and meet.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
"Sexual Networks in sub-Saharan Countries: Some Preliminary Results and a New Agenda for Research and HIV Prevention"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Stéphane Helleringer, Professor Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series. http://opr.princeton.edu/seminars/fall/2011
"The Challenge of Radical Right-Wing Populism in Europe: The French Case in Perspective"
Room 035, Robertson Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Nonna Mayer, Sciences Po, Paris
Sponsors: the EU Program, the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, the Department of History and the Center for French Studies
Contact: Sophie Meunier Aitsahalia (smeunier@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: www.princeton.edu/europe
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
SGS Seminar - "Dynamics of the Reagan-era Arms Control Process and Lessons for Today's Policymakers"
221 Nassau St., 2nd floor conference room 12:00- 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph Lehman, independent government relations consultant
Sponsor: Program on Science and Global Security
Contact: Grace Cooper (gracec@princeton.edu)
RSVP: by noon November 29th at sgs@princeton.edu or 609-258-4677
Additional Information: This is a lunch seminar.
"Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"
This event is free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Don Peck MPA '94, features editor of The Atlantic; author, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This event is part of the Economic Recovery - Moving Forward series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/DonPeck11_30/
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
"Chilling Effects: The Influence of Partner Incarceration on Political Participation"
This event is for graduate students and faculty only. Wallace Hall Room 001, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Naomi Sugie
Sponsor: Fragile Families Working Group
Contact: Tracy Merone (ffdata@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Seminar is open to graduate students and faculty. Lunch will be served. RSVP required.
Lunchtimer- "Will Global AIDS Programs Survive the Financial Crisis?"
This event is for WWS students and faculty only, must RSVP.
Room 015, Robertson Hall, 12:15- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ambassador Jimmy Kolker, chief of the HIV/AIDS section of UNICEF in New York
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich ( yelavich@princeton.edu)
RSVP: https://wws.princeton.edu/extaff/event-reception/
Additional Information: You must sign-up to attend as there is limited seating and lunch will be served.
LAPA Midday Seminar: "The Financial Crisis and the Path of Reform"
Free and open to the public.
Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Barr, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Bendheim Center for Finance; Economics Department
Contact: Judi Rivkin (jrivkin@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: Light lunch. http://lapa.princeton.edu/eventdetail.php?ID=500
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Friday, December 2, 2011
No scheduled events.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
"Energy Policy Initiatives to Propel Economic Recovery"
Students and faculty preferred 300 Wallace Hall, 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Schwartz , formerly, Senior Vice President, Commercial Strategy for Duke Energy Generation Services, Duke Energy
Sponsor: STEP and PEI
Contact: chuck Crosby (ccrosby@princeton.edu)
Additional Information:
"Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights"
Bowl 001, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Cathy Caruth, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Departments of English, Anthropology and Comparative Literature
Contact: Kristina Graff (kgraff@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: http://www.princeton.edu/globalhealth/events_archive/repository/12052011_lecture/
"The Role of Documentary in Shaping Public Policy"
This event is free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Raney Aronson-Rath, series senior producer for the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE; Purcell Carson, documentary filmmaker and editor, a documentary production specialist, Woodrow Wilson School; and Emily Holland '01, TV producer, human rights law scholar, and co-author of "And Still Peace Did Not Come."
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: The discussion is part of the School"s "Media and Public Policy" series. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/DocPanel12_05/
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
"Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?"
300 Wallace Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Janet Currie, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Contact: Mary Lou Delaney (md@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This talk is part of the Notestein Seminar Series. http://opr.princeton.edu/seminars/fall/2011
"The Time of Our Lives"
This is a ticketed event- please see ticket information below. Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m. Speaker: Tom Brokaw, broadcast journalist, author and special correspondent for NBC News Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs Contact: Patricia Yelavich ( yelavich@princeton.edu) Ticket Information: Please visit our website- http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/TomBrokaw12_06/Additional Information: A book sale and signing of Brokaw's new book, "The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America; Who We Are, Where We've Been, and Where We Need to Go Now, to Recapture the American Dream" (2011, Random House) will take place immediately after the discussion.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Lunch Seminar with Mark McClellan
A Public Talk with Mark McClellan
This event is free and open to the public. Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, 4:30- 6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, senior fellow of economic studies; and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution
Sponsor: Office of Public and External Affairs
Contact: Patricia Yelavich (yelavich@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: McClellan is visiting the School as part of its Program in Leadership and Governance Program, which brings prominent policy makers to Princeton for a one-to-two day visit so that students can meet and learn from exemplary public leaders. http://wws.princeton.edu/event_rep/MarkMcClellan12_07/
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
"Elections and Reform: The Adoption of Civil Service Systems in the U.S. States"
Restricted to faculty, fellows, and graduate students 300 Wallace Hall 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Ting, Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP)
Contact: Michele Demak Epstein (mdeps@princeton.edu)
Additional Information: This is the third in CSDP's American Politics Colloquium Series for 2011-2012. http://www.princeton.edu/csdp/events/viewevent.xml?id=426
RPIS Seminar Series
Restricted to Faculty and Students. Wallace Hall 333, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Matthew Fuhrmann, "Atomic Assistance: How 'Atoms for Peace' Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity"
Sponsor: Center for International Security Studies
Contact: Cynthia Ernst (cernst@princeton.edu)
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Friday, December 9, 2011
No scheduled events.
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Please send your event submissions to extaff@princeton.edu by Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. to be included in "The Weeks Ahead."
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